Cakes: Some Jews in camps initially had a very brief window to be granted a release, but release opportunities for Jewish prisoners were terminated in 1940, within several months after the invasion of Poland. I do not believe that after that point, there was ever going to be any resumption of releases, especially given the history of Nazis often killing their political prisoners even prior to 1940.
This obviously cannot be proven, but the eventual numbers killed support the conclusion, in my opinion.
I laid our for you my general view of 3 stages of the Jewish question, as viewed and dealt with by the Nazi leadership, and to a smaller extent others outside that circle. I have said a lot about that, over and over.
Now it appears you are finally starting see that there was no concrete plan for the Jewish Question. However there is a lot more to go through that I know about, and so much more to learn about that we will never know. The history that is out there is endless.
I will get a little more specific now in regard to what I called the "beginning" and " Middle" of how the Jewish Question might have been dealt with in those early years of the war, and even before. Remember it was only about ten years or so from the time that Hitler had absolute power, after Hindenburg died and he had complete power over Germany until he committed suicide in his bunker (Aug. 2 1934- April 30, 1945).
There is a lot to absorb on this for sure, and a lot to read about those beginning days leading up to the war, and the early days of the war. Hitler never gave a written order on the Final Solution, to the Jewish Question, but there are hints here and of the views being mixed. It was also not his sole ideology on this, it was blended in with those of others in the party.
As an example is the Madagascar plan, which Adolf Eichmann proposed to Hitler in a memo, that would have deported all the European Jews to Madagascar. This was in 1940. The idea was not Hitlers but a lawyer and Nazi official in the Party. Hitler approved to move forward with seeing if this plan was workable. Eichmann envisioned in the plan, to deport 1 million Jews a year to Madagascar.
There is a lot to this plan, and it depended on several things happening. There were pros, and cons discussed, and difficult to process all the data on this. It apparently depending on Germany defeating Britain for one, and their Naval blockades.. Madagascar was a French Colony, and victory in Europe's in the early war was critical to this plan. Others said there was just not enough logistical space to support Millions of people on the island.
The plan was canned in 1940-41 as the Germans went east. (note: I read also it was leaked in Italy, and the Americans knew about this plan, but I haven't read into that)
Point being it is really unclear, yet clear, that the Nazi high command had no settled plan, for the Jewish question, prior to Wannsee and the development of the Final Solution in early 1942.
There is also things like Goebbels diary that lend to different plans for the Jewish Questions, from deportation, to complete antihalation.
Again I think it is important for you to understand that there was until 1942, a "Jewish Question" and after the conference developing the Final Solution, it should be understood that the " Final Solution to the Jewish Question." I think it is important to note the "Jewish Question" was centuries old according to the history, when adds so much weight to the term "Final Solution."
But anyways it appears you are starting to see, and soften, that what Cooper spoke about is within reason and within the pale. And by your lack of comment you finally read what he actually said, and you now understand it was a comment not specific to the Jews, but at Germany not being prepared for millions of peoples, of all "kinds" that Germany was about to detain, and deal with.
